Well we could easily do with 13,000 odd Brazilians around the place. have you seen the football squad coming through that O'Neill has to pick from lately.

that level, some of whom will be here since 2006, is a manageable enough number (if true) for this country and not taking the piss mass migration.

The best football players in Brazil tend to come from the favelas, so we really do seem to be trying to recreate the right conditions for future footballing success

There was a Brazilian team playing in the junior league in Roscommon a few years back made up of lads who worked the meat factories. I assumed that they'd be of a certin standard too but a mate who saw them play said they were hopeless....more Irish than Brazilian at the soccer

Your starting to come round to my way of thinking with regards to the census figures Mantissa

If anyone actually believes there are less than 10,000 Nigerians in Ireland as of 2016, I presume they are still writing to Santa! There was over 17,000 in Ireland as per the 2011 census and even that was probably well under-counted based on the asylum stats in the last 20 years. And now there's 7,000 less with Nigeria as country of origin. CSO should be embarrassed releasing 'stats' like this

but they could be getting citizenship since and declaring as "Irish". Im sure there was a time when they thought they'd be the largest minority, how wrong they were!

As for the Brazilians, I doubt they ever dreamed of entering the favelas before they came here.

_________________advice to future unemployed TDs at the next general election: dont look at it as a failure, see it as an opportunity to 'upskill'.

I don't follow Plus, I can't see any comment on the prev page for Sept 17,2017

Skippy3- the question on the census refers to 'country of origin', not nationality/citizenship.So are people misinterpreting the question and the CSO need to look at that rather than just throw the figures out there with no thought given?